TY - JOUR

T1 - Generationengerechtigkeit in der Klimapolitik

AU - Kemfert, Claudia

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2025 Claudia Kemfert, published by ZBW – Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft.

PY - 2025/11/1

Y1 - 2025/11/1

N2 - Intergenerational justice has become a central guiding principle of climate policy. It combines normative, legal, and economic perspectives on the fair distribution of freedoms, costs, and opportunities between current and future generations. This article shows that intergenerational justice is not a moral ideal, but rather a constitutional and economically justified imperative for action. Using Germany as an example, it analyses the extent to which political and fiscal mechanisms are suitable for ensuring intertemporal responsibility. Intergenerational climate policy does not appear to be a programme of renunciation, but rather an economically rational investment in the future viability of society and the economy.

AB - Intergenerational justice has become a central guiding principle of climate policy. It combines normative, legal, and economic perspectives on the fair distribution of freedoms, costs, and opportunities between current and future generations. This article shows that intergenerational justice is not a moral ideal, but rather a constitutional and economically justified imperative for action. Using Germany as an example, it analyses the extent to which political and fiscal mechanisms are suitable for ensuring intertemporal responsibility. Intergenerational climate policy does not appear to be a programme of renunciation, but rather an economically rational investment in the future viability of society and the economy.

KW - Umwelt Governance

KW - Energieforschung

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=105022789374&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.2478/wd-2025-0206

DO - 10.2478/wd-2025-0206

M3 - Zeitschriftenaufsätze

AN - SCOPUS:105022789374

VL - 105

SP - 803

EP - 807

JO - Wirtschaftsdienst

JF - Wirtschaftsdienst

SN - 0043-6275

IS - 11

ER -